Just to make sure Fyr is quite thoroughly jealous the lovely Victoria Fox has offered to model on my engine. She's on this next round of the fursuit tourney with it. Hopefully she does well. :9
So last week I had my first structure fire. It was really like a 3 ring circus, hoses and gear flying every which way. Do to limited air packs that day I ended up outside. In a way I'm thankful I did this time. I spent at least 5 minutes untangling the spaghetti mess of hoselines.
For the record, I will NEVER own a house with vinyl siding and I strongly recommend none of you do either.
I am really getting annoyed with ebay sellers. I have never had so much trouble as I have this week.
First I pay nearly $200 for an old PRC-77 military radio. I expected to have to repair it but it was not the unit advertised. Dented and bent to hell with different markings and obviously repainted several times with less than 50% of the paint remaining and so packed with grime you would think it was fished out of a lagoon somewhere. And the ass in Greece had the audacity to claim its not his fault it got "dented in transit". WTF!?
Now a US surplus seller in Georgia sells me a new woodland MOLLE 3-day assault pack, guess what came in the mail today? A new woodland 3-day assault pack in ALICE. For those of you who don't know, ALICE is the old style of military webgear, and MOLLE is the new style and worth about $30 more. These systems are not compatible.
Also, does any one out there need a new whip antenna for an old PRC-10 radio? I accidently picked one up mistaking it for a PRC-77.
It has taken me a couple days to post on this. Frankly I haven't had a clue how to react.
This weekend I read a report published by the Department of Homeland Security. Frankly I can't tell if it was intended to be antagonistic.
Apparently being a veteran who fought for the USA is enough to be a terrorist. Regardless of the fact they put their very lives on the line for this country. I should have know that enlisting in the army was a criminal act, for shame! Also anyone with conservative political views (1st amendment), any belief of states rights (10th), or just plain owns a weapon (2nd). It really does get ridiculous and offensive at varying points.
On amusing point, anyone stocking up on food and disaster supplies is obviously a terrorist. Never mind the fact that both FEMA and the DHS are still encouraging all citizens to prepared for disaster.
Read it for yourself, draw your own conclusions. It annoyed me greatly and I want an apology for the gravest of charector insults and threats to my liberty.
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